Unfulfilled predictions, he-he-he

[Ya Sam]

Yeah. William Gaddis is spectacularly absent from the 20th cent. American 
lit. studies that came out in the 1970s and 1980s. Now we cannot help but 
wonder: how come? By reading some of that stuff one can get the impression 
that Updike, Mailer and Malamud are the main American writers of the period.

>From: jd <wescac at gmail.com>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: johncarvill at hotmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Unfulfilled predictions, he-he-he
>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:33:13 -0400
>
>Time is the best judge for literary critics anyways.  For "regular"
>readers I'd say it's a bit of a confirmation (or rejection) of their
>personal feelings.  Critics gave The Recognitions a pretty sound
>thumping when it first came out but regardless it was those every day
>readers who were blown away by it that finally made the critics
>re-consider, that maybe that "difficult" text (and one can say this
>about GR, too, I suppose) is really worth all that "work" and that
>maybe they should read the book instead of studying the word
>construction and lambasting it because it doesn't fit their idea of
>the norm of a "great book".
>
>On 8/18/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>It's not an article but a book. Some 5 years ago I stumbled upon it in a
>>library and photocopied a part of it, without even knowing that it had
>>several pages devoted to TRP (several pages!!! as if to stress the
>>insignificance and transitory quality of his works). It's interesting to
>>look at the criticism of the period (1970s) from contemporary perspective
>>and realise once again that time is the best judge of  literary merit.
>>
>> >From: "Carvill John" <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
>> >To: takoitov at hotmail.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>> >Subject: RE: Unfulfilled predictions, he-he-he
>> >Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:35:30 +0000
>> >
>> >I think the technical term for this is 'shite-talk'.
>> >
>> >The 'prose text'? Fuck off'!
>> >
>> >I take it the full prose text of this article isn't available online?
>> >
>> >>
>> >>'Yet the prose text of Gravity's Rainbow seems to me-- to put the case
>> >>against it all too bluntly--one which lacks a serious fiction's 
>>essential
>> >>fidelity to a reciprocated human norm. [...]
>> >
>> >
>>
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